Google: Page: 2

This is page 2 of the Google posts on Writers Write.


  • Google Named Word of Decade. Tweet Named Word of the Year (2010-01-11): The Washington Post reports that the word "tweet" has been named the word of the year and "Google" has been named the word of the decade by the American Dialect Society.

  • Authors' Groups Write Congress About Google Book Settlement (2010-01-07): Three writers groups have sent a letter to 60 members of Congress listing their reasons for opposing the Google Book Settlement.

  • Judge Preliminarily Approves Revised Google Book Settlement (2009-11-19): A federal judge today preliminarily approved a revised Google Book Settlement which removes most European authors from the deal.

  • Google Book Settlement Hearing Postponed (2009-09-22): As expected, the October 7 hearing in the Google Book Settlement case is going to be postponed so that Google can revise the settlement agreement to the Justice Department's satisfaction.

  • Google Book Settlement Being Revised After Justice Department Says it Violates Federal Law (2009-09-21): On Friday the Justice Department weighed in on the Google Book Settlement saying that if it wasn't revised, the Justice Department would stop the deal because it violates a number of federal antitrust laws.

  • U.S. Register of Copyrights Objects to Google Book Settlement (2009-09-16): The Google Book Settlement Fairness Hearing in October is going to be a wild one.

  • Urban Libraries Council Objects to Google Book Settlement Terms (2009-08-28): As the deadline for objecting to the Google Book Settlement approaches -- it's September 4 -- it seems like a new party enters the case every week.

  • Google Book Settlement Faces Another Roadblock (2009-08-20): The Google Book Project settlement could be facing a new roadblock.

  • William Morris Tells Authors to Opt Out of Google Book Settlement (2009-08-10): The New York Times reports that William Morris is advising its author clients to opt out of the Google Book Settlement.

  • Google Plans Microblog Search Engine (2009-06-14): Google Operating System reports that Google is planning a microblogging search engine that will let users search tweets and updates from other microblogging sites.

  • Is Twitter Search a Threat to Google? (2009-02-25): Chris O'Brien at the Mercury News has an article about how Twitter's search tool could ultimately be a threat to Google.

  • Official Gmail Blog Not For Posting About Gmail Problems (2008-08-11): Google's popular Gmail email website went down for a couple hours earlier today and TechCrunch noted that Google hadn't even posted anything yet on the Official Gmail Blog.

  • Google Apologizes For Marking Users As Spam (2008-08-04): Google's Blogger.

  • Google News Worth $100 Million Says VP Marissa Mayer (2008-07-24): Fortune reports that Google's Vice President Marissa Mayer recently put the value of Google News at $100 million.

  • Blogspot.com #1 Malware Source Says Sophos (2008-07-23): A Sophos study has found that Blogspot.

  • Google and MacFarlane Cut Web Video Distribution Deal (2008-06-30): Google and Seth MacFarlane have cut a distribution deal that will send fifty short two-minute episodes of a MacFarlane-created show called Cavalcade screaming around Google's AdSense network.

  • Google Launches Google Grants Blog (2008-02-19): Google has added another blog to its growing list of corporate blogs.

  • Blogger Returns After Strange Error (2008-01-17): Blogger blogs returned online earlier today after a major two-hour outage.

  • Google Adding Blogs to Universal Search (2007-12-14): eWeek reports that Google is going to add blogs to its Universal Search alongside images, news, books, maps and videso.

  • It's Good to Be a Bundled Feed (2007-10-15): Google has a post explaining the addition of subscriber numbers to its Google Reader service.